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I'm about a year late to this screenshot thing that has been flying around the blogosphere, and I had truly meant to get to it before now, it's just that, er, I don't really have a good excuse for why it's taken me so long, so I won't offend you with a bad one! Let's just suffice it to say that it took me longer than intended, and that I'm beyond fashionably late to the party, but better late than never, right? RIGHT?!?!
Phew, now that is out of the was, let's get on with it, shall we? I was tagged by a number of people for challenge and I had every intention of linking back to everyone who tagged me…but I lost the sheet that I wrote it down on, and I don't want to forget anyone and offend them, so, uh, let's just leave it as several great folks tagged me! And that I suck for not linking back to them. I'll make it up to them somehow…when they least expect it. Yea, that's it! *nods*
Anyhow, the whole gist of the thing is that you were supposed to go into your images/screenshot folder and go to the sixth subfolder and then find the sixth picture. Once you'd done that, you are supposed to post it and tell everyone a bit about it.
Well, I only have one screenshot folder. Ok, that's not entirely true. My external drive has about a million for guild quotes, boss kills, "I can't believe someone said that", and, well, you get the picture. For purposes of this project, I stuck to my strict WoW screenshot folder. Anyhow, to keep in with the theme of sixes, I went to the sixth picture of the sixth set. Or, in simpler terms, I used the thirty-sixth screenshot in my folder. I know, I know, not EXACTLY what I was supposed to do – we'll just say I put a "Beru twist" on it. So without further ado…
This is Mulgore.
I was slaving away at archaeology, flying across the friggin' contient of Kalimdor, to yet another friggin' NE dig, when this beautiful shot brought me out of my stooper. In fact, I thought it was so breathtaking that I stopped and took a screenshot of it. I may have decided that this lovely distraction was a sign from god that I should stop digging for the night, and then promptly hearthed. But I can neither confirm, nor deny, such accusations. Regardless, I still think that it's a beautiful image and I'm happy that I had a reason to share it!
Now, the rules of this challenge (I refuse to call it a meme, ok!) are that I'm supposed to tag some other people to do the same thing. Well, I think that everyone and their brother that are interested in it have already done it – yea, yea late to the party, blah blah blah. So I'll just go ahead and say that if you haven't done it yet, but would like to, you have summarily been tagged!


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The Hope College production of "Rose and the Rime," which was written at the college, has been chosen for presentation during the annual festival of the Great Lakes Region of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (ACTF) in January.
West Michigan theatergoers will have an opportunity to enjoy the production a few days earlier. A benefit performance has been scheduled for Monday, Jan. 7, at 7 p.m. at Hope in the DeWitt Center main theatre.
"Rose and the Rime" is one of only nine productions selected for presentation during the festival from among a field of 35 entries submitted from throughout the five-state region. The event will run Tuesday-Sunday, Jan. 8-13, at Cardinal Stritch University and Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wis. "Rose and the Rime's" festival performance has been scheduled for Friday, Jan. 11.
Hope College Theatre originally presented "Rose and the Rime" during the 2006-07 school year, on Friday and Saturday, April 20 and 21, and Wednesday-Saturday, April 25-28, in the DeWitt Center main theatre. The show was written and created by guest artist Nathan Allen, who was also the production's director, in a collaborative effort with the cast and design team.
"Rose and the Rime" is set in the fictional town of Radio Falls, Mich., where it is always winter. The community has been laid waste by the terrible Rime Witch, and is a world without flowers, apples, mail or dancing -- but with an abundance of snow, wind and ice cream. The shining beacon in the wintry gloom is a young girl named Rose, who takes it upon herself to make a treacherous journey to the frozen cave of the Witch in the hope of changing her town's fate.
Several of the original cast members will be reprising their roles in the production: 2007 graduate Jennifer Blair of Libertyville, Ill., as Ethel May-Bell; junior Isaac Bush of Muskegon as Charlie Sutherland; senior Dane Dandridge Clark of Grand Rapids as Hank; 2007 graduate Chad Coe of Birmingham as Gary Smackhouse; 2007 graduate Kate Finkbeiner of Haslett as Adelaide Avram; 2007 graduate Youngmee Sharon Kwon of Ann Arbor and Tae-jon, South Korea, as Granny Sadie; 2007 graduate Cody Masalkoski of Lansing as Uncle Roger; senior Brandon Ruiter of Grand Rapids as Jimmy Sutherland; sophomore Brittany Stock of St. Charles, Ill., as Hazel Davis; and senior Rachel Wells of West Bend, Wis., as Rose. Joining the original cast are seniors Katherine Bramley of Northbrook, Ill., as Betty Duncan, and Jocelyn Vammer of Midland as Loretta Laroche and the Rime Witch.
The production team will include a mix of Hope students and faculty and staff. The scenic designers are faculty member Richard Smith and seniors Sarah Watkins of Bloomfield Hills and Stephanie Gavin of Granville, Ohio. Costume design is by faculty member Michelle Bombe and senior Amanda Spaanstra of Wyoming. Erik Alberg of the staff is lighting director, and senior Mike Olson of Holland is student lighting designer. Sound designer is faculty member Perry Landes. Stage manager is 2007 graduate Kate Goetzinger of Indianapolis, Ind., while the assistant stage managers are 2007 graduate Katie Eagan of Highland Park, Ill.; sophomore Jeri Fredrickson of Wheaton, Ill.; and sophomore Lenore Ojibway-Gifford of Lansing.
Senior Stephanie Lawson of Mount Vernon, Ohio, is production manager and house manager. Freshmen Christine Worden of Midland and Jackie Richards of Worthington, Ohio, are doing wardrobe. Serving on the lighting set and crew are sophomore Sara Gosses of Amherst, Ohio; sophomore Kenneth Chamberlain of Metuchen, N.J.; junior Laura Van Tassell of Spencer, Iowa; senior Jon Sprik of Grand Rapids; freshman Ben Hertel of Fennville; junior Katie Terpstra of Zeeland; and senior Sam Mirto of Fennville. Working on front-of-house crew are sophomore Candice Tindell of Lake Villa, Ill.; senior Kelly Sina of Watertown, Wis.; and senior Stacy Thomas of Clare. Senior Jon Kay of Three Rivers, who did original poster art for the production and will also be on the crew for the remount.
Allen is the artistic director of the House Theatre Company in Chicago, Ill., and worked with the students throughout the 2006-07 school year in creating the play. He began in October 2006, with monthly intensive workshops for actors, directors, technicians and writers which culminated in his residency in March and April of 2007.
Originally from Colorado, Allen graduated from Southern Methodist University in 2000 with a BFA in acting. After his experiences in college and abroad, Allen and friends from SMU and the BritishAmericanDramaAcademy moved to Chicago to start their own theatre company. Their mission was to collaborate and create a non-elitist theatre community where they could write, act, direct, and realize their own work. Within a year and a half, they had incorporated the House Theatre Company.
The last Hope College Theatre production selected for presentation during the regional festival was "The Dining Room" in 1988. Productions chosen previously were "Hallelujah" (1971), "Bull Moose" (1975), "Mack and Mabel" (1981), and "Tea and Sympathy" (1983; also invited to the national theatre festival at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.). Most recently, in 2004, a scene from Hope College Theatre's fall 2003 production of "Iphigenia and Other Daughters" was chosen for presentation during the regional festival's "Evening of Scenes."
In addition to "Rose and the Rime" being chosen for presentation, multiple students are competing for individual awards.
A total of four students nominated by ACTF responders will be participating in the Irene Ryan Acting Competition: sophomore Isaac Bush of Muskegon (Trplev in "The Nina Variations" in October), senior Dane Clark of Grand Rapids (Hank in "Rose and the Rime"), senior Isaac Droscha of Mason (Xavier Cassidy in "By the Bog of Cats" in November and December) and senior Rachel Wells of West Bend, Wis. (Rose in "Rose and the Rime"). Four others were also nominated but have chosen not to compete due to having graduated or off-campus commitments.
Two students will be presenting their designs in the Barbizon Awards for Theatrical Design Excellence competition. Seniors Amanda Spaanstra of Wyoming and Sarah Watkins of Detroit will be presenting their designs for "By the Bog of Cats." In addition, Spaanstra will be entering her designs for "Rose and the Rime," and Watkins is entering another design.
The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival is a national program designed to encourage excellence in college and university theater in the United States. Started in 1969, the program involves 18,000 students from more than 600 academic institutions throughout the country.
The program is divided into eight regions. The Great Lakes "Region III" includes colleges and universities from Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin.
Tickets for the January 7 benefit production of "Rose and the Rime" at Hope are $15 for regular admission, $10 for senior citizens and members of the college's faculty and staff, and $5 for students, and are available in the ticket office inside the east entrance of the DeVos Fieldhouse.
The ticket office's hours will vary somewhat because of the holiday season. Through Friday, Dec. 21, the office is open Mondays-Fridays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The ticket office will be closed Monday-Thursday, Dec. 24-27, and on Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 31-Jan. 1. The ticket office will be open on Saturday, Dec. 22, from noon until 4 p.m.; on Friday, Dec. 28, from noon until 9 p.m.; and on Saturday, Dec. 29, from noon until 4 p.m. Beginning Wednesday, Jan. 2, the office will again be open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. In addition, the theatre lobby ticket office in the DeWitt Center will be open on the January 7 performance nightly shortly before the 7 p.m. curtain. The ticket office may be contacted at (616) 395-7890.
The DeVos Fieldhouse is located at 222 Fairbanks Avenue between Ninth and 11th streets. The DeWitt Center is located on Columbia Avenue at 12th Street.


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Have suggestions, comments, or need help? Post it here! If you know of better software than GoodSync 10, post it here! If you know of issues with GoodSync 10, post it here! Share your knowledge with all of us. :-)MEERAN EGuest
TOOLS -> GOODSYNC ACCOUNT MANAGE>ADD LICENSE KEY>ORDER ID>SUBMIT after this it shows"Adding Licenses from Existing Order to User emeeran-hotmail-com PUMS: ERROR: Wrong data for activation: unknown OrderID/Name." Please help me resolvekoadGuest
i have the same Problem
pls helpDuranGuest
Güzel bir proğram.Teşekküe ederim.JulianGuest
ShareWareOnSale provides an Order ID only
Adding the GoodSync License needs Order ID and Name so registration fails.
Please investigate this issue.FrankGuest
I'm unable to activate the license.
Tools>Goodsync Account Manage … results in the following pop up "Cannot show web page: The system cannot find the file specified. (error 2)"
Help>Activate License …results in the following pop up.
"Login to GoodSync Account using Tools -> GoodSync Account Manage,
Click 'Add License Key (Batch Code)' to convert License Key to actual License,
then select Activate via GoodSync Account in this dialog."Doug DingleGuest
Aside from all the activation issues listed so far, is anyone using this with Dropbox?
If so, will it sync any file/folder on the machine, or like the Dropbox app, just files in and under the Dropbox folder?
And if it syncs from other than the Dropbox folder, will it sync from network (and network connected) drives?
The activation issue is bothersome…DocpCGuest
This is junk has no clear way to register the software i tried what it said in the instructions would not let me register it Uninstalling it software should be simple to register without having to jump thru a hoopJohannesGuest
Its not possible to add order ID and with that no license, because it also asks for a name, and didnt accept name (used for registration of acount).
Please tell us order NAME for the order ID which is asked for adding license!Doug DingleGuest
To answer my own question: Yes, this will copy any local or network folder to a Dropbox account. I haven't found a way yet to create a new folder on Dropbox, however, so if you want to copy to a new folder, you must create it yourself on the Dropbox site or through the Dropbox sync feature.
If you got the previous version offered here, and it is now indicating inside the app that an upgrade to this version is available, you can upgrade to this version from inside the app without losing your registration info. Minor upgrades like this from version 10.x.x.x to version 10.x.x.x are free.
When it goes to version 11.x.x.x, you will have to pay to upgrade, however.Doug DingleGuest
This product uses the same support system as Roboform, which is also one of their products.
I was able to set up a job connecting a folder to Dropbox, but when I went to set up a second job with a different local folder connecting to Dropbox, I got all sorts of errors and issues.
I recognized the support immediately because I posted the issue on the support site in painstaking detail, and the response was "Please describe your issue in detail".
It seems to be all cut-n-paste stock boilerplate phrases that don't address the issue, which is precisely how Roboform support works. After a few back and forths (to come) I expect the same dismissive attitude implying I'm an idiot for having the problem, precisely the way it works in Roboform.
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TOOLS -> GOODSYNC ACCOUNT MANAGE>ADD LICENSE KEY>ORDER ID>SUBMIT after this it shows"Adding Licenses from Existing Order to User emeeran-hotmail-com PUMS: ERROR: Wrong data for activation: unknown OrderID/Name." Please help me resolve
same problem!xhellGuest
very good ,i like itMr.JohnGuest
Hi everyone!
if you cannot activate your license, please take a look at this note:
1 make sure what you've installed is Goodsync V10 personal edition, not 2GO or business edition.
2 create and login your account on goodsync.com, remember your name here.
3 click the licenses button on the left side.
4 click the blue link "Add License Key (Batch Code) "
5 copy and paste your order ID which you got on this website then click submit button
6 you will get a series of number like 191111111111, that's your OrderID
7 start your goodsync on desktop computer, click "Activate License command"
8 click the middle option, enter your name and OrderID
9 click next
all done!
enjoy Goodsync Now!GoodSyncGuest
[@MEERAN E] Our apologies for the confusion! Please click ADD LICENSE KEY (BATCH CODE) and enter the ORDER ID we give you above on the field provided then click SUBMIT.


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Below is a graphical look at where our recent web traffic has come from. Not surprisingly, the vast majority of visitors are from with in the US. But there are some surprising countries on this list, some that have never had Peace Corps too!
These statistics are from the launch of our new site in April 2012 to present.
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Here are the latest technical updates at Wikia. Keep in mind that our system updates happen every Tuesday and Thursday - today's notes are for tomorrow's site update. Also note that we change hundreds of tiny details every week, so these are just the highlights.
Major Bug Fixes
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Growing and Sharing our Faith in God
Chapel Worship Service
Date: Saturday, September 26, 2020
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We invite you to this very informal worship time, which centers around personal prayer, favorite hymn singing, and a thoughtful sermon. This worship service allows persons to experience a caring Christian Community. People who cannot attend Sunday Services find this a refreshing alternative to their spiritual needs. This Worship is called Chapel because it started as a small group but it has expanded to a very large group that now meets in the Sanctuary.


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Prior check Opinion on Recruitment of Local Agents in EU Delegations by the European External Action Service (EEAS)
Read the European Data Protection Supervisor's blogpost on Artificial Intelligence and the European strategy for data.
The EDPS has issued orientations on body temperature checks by EU institutions in the fight against COVID-19.
Read Press Release and Read Orientations
On the anniversary of Giovanni Buttarelli's death, we remember him with the publication of five short memories written by his colleagues at the EDPS.
Read Blogpost and Watch Video
'Compliance in a law firm: cybersecurity and GDPR', Speech by Wojciech Wiewiórowski in LegaTech Forum event (via videolink), Brussels, Belgium
Wojciech Wiewiórowski meeting with EDRi (via videolink), Brussels, Belgium
Wojciech Wiewiórowski meeting with Laura Codruţa Kövesi, European Chief Prosecutor (EPPO) (via videolink), Brussels, Belgium
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, Participation by Wojciech Wiewiórowski, Brussels, Belgium
'Privacy and Data Protection and Digital Sovereignty', Participation by Wojciech Wiewiórowski in event organised by The Mentor Group (via videolink), Brussels, Belgium
EDPS Data Protection Talk with Professor Herwig C. H. Hofmann, Professor of European and Transnational Public Law and Head of the Department of Law at the University of Luxembourg (via videolink), Brussels, Belgium
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Atheists and secular humanists consistently make the claim that religion is the #1 cause of violence and war throughout the history of mankind. One of hatetheism's key cheerleaders, Sam Harris, says in his book The End of Faith that faith and religion are "the most prolific source of violence in our history."1
While there's no denying that campaigns such as the Crusades and the Thirty Years' War foundationally rested on religious ideology, it is simply incorrect to assert that religion has been the primary cause of war. Moreover, although there's also no disagreement that radical Islam was the spirit behind 9/11, it is a fallacy to say that all faiths contribute equally where religiously-motivated violence and warfare are concerned.
An interesting source of truth on the matter is Philip and Axelrod's three-volume Encyclopedia of Wars, which chronicles some 1,763 wars that have been waged over the course of human history. Of those wars, the authors categorize 123 as being religious in nature,2 which is an astonishingly low 6.98% of all wars. However, when one subtracts out those waged in the name of Islam (66), the percentage is cut by more than half to 3.23%.
That means that all faiths combined – minus Islam – have caused less than 4% of all of humanity's wars and violent conflicts. Further, they played no motivating role in the major wars that have resulted in the most loss of life.
Kind of puts a serious dent into Harris' argument, doesn't it?
The truth is, non-religious motivations and naturalistic philosophies bear the blame for nearly all of humankind's wars. Lives lost during religious conflict pales in comparison to those experienced during the regimes who wanted nothing to do with the idea of God – something showcased in R. J. Rummel's work Lethal Politics and Death by Government:
Non-Religious Dictator Lives Lost
- Joseph Stalin - 42,672,000
- Mao Zedong - 37,828,000
- Adolf Hitler - 20,946,000
- Chiang Kai-shek - 10,214,000
- Vladimir Lenin - 4,017,000
- Hideki Tojo - 3,990,000
- Pol Pot - 2,397,0003
Rummel says: "Almost 170 million men, women and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed or worked to death; buried alive, drowned, hung, bombed or killed in any other of a myriad of ways governments have inflicted death on unarmed, helpless citizens and foreigners. The dead could conceivably be nearly 360 million people. It is though our species has been devastated by a modern Black Plague. And indeed it has, but a plague of Power, not germs."4
The historical evidence is quite clear: Religion is not the #1 cause of war.
If religion can't be blamed for most wars and violence, then what is the primary cause? The same thing that triggers all crime, cruelty, loss of life, and other such things. Jesus provides the answer very clearly: "For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed the evil thoughts, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, deeds of coveting and wickedness, as well as deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride and foolishness. All these evil things proceed from within and defile the man," (Mark 7:21–23).
James (naturally) agrees with Christ when he says: "What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members? You lust and do not have; so you commit murder. You are envious and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel," (James 4:1–2).
In the end, the evidence shows that the atheists are quite wrong about the wars they claim to so desperately despise. Sin is the #1 cause of war and violence, not religion, and certainly not Christianity.
- 1. http://books.google.com/books?id=XP_86itwp2IC&pg=PA27&lpg=PA27&dq=sam+harris+%22the+most+prolific+source+of+violence+in+our+history%22&source=bl&ots=sdpOO04g1D&sig=asL3JyvcaRp9zWRI9a4oVyoPU2E&hl=en&sa=X&ei=d9CKT92fGYqogweQgsXfCQ&ved=0CFgQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q&f=false
- 2. http://books.google.com/books?id=sF8wv_Y54j8C&pg=PA104&lpg=PA104&dq=encyclopedia+of+wars+%22Almohad+conquest+of+Muslim+Spain%22&source=bl&ots=VBRkLHXHj3&sig=XLT88ICr2Lu98L1_eldxRwMPgIY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=SdKKT4jLHIr1gAf8vNjiCQ&ved=0CCIQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=encyclopedia%20of%20wars%20%22Almohad%20conquest%20of%20Muslim%20Spain%22&f=false
- 3. http://books.google.com/books?id=sK5CJFpb2DAC&pg=PA23&lpg=PA23&dq=stalin+42,672,000&source=bl&ots=Tw7FJG9OnR&sig=aSUiodXqC4euU2UTyVNlnFkwyRE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=fc2KT7rnNcipgwe9tL3mCQ&ved=0CFMQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=stalin%2042%2C672%2C000&f=false and http://books.google.com/books?id=mbnLn6A3q-4C&pg=PA178&lpg=PA178&dq=Zedong+37,828,000&source=bl&ots=-VlfCns1xy&sig=2TrcOYMxZTjr653ULLdNkIkltwU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2c6KT-G7BYGXgwf63-3kCQ&ved=0CEsQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=Zedong%2037%2C828%2C000&f=false
- 4. http://books.google.com/books?id=N1j1QdPMockC&printsec=frontcover&dq=death+by+government&hl=en&sa=X&ei=WcyKT5TBDITiggfdpO28BQ&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Almost%20170%20million%20men&f=false


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In this scholarly volume, each of the living Slavonic languages are analyzed and described in depth, together with the two extinct languages--Old Church Slavonic and Polabian. In addition, the various alphabets of the Slavonic languages--especially Roman, Cyrillic, and Glagolitic--are discussed, and the relationships of the Slavonic languages to other Indo-European languages and to one another, are explored. The last chapter provides an account of those Slavonic languagesin exilesuch as Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Czech, and Slovak in the US. Each language chapter is written by an expert in the field, in a format designed for comparative study. Information on each language includes an introductory description of social context and development, a discussion of phonology, a detailed presentation of synchronic morphology, noting major historical developments, comprehensive treatment of syntactic properties, a discussion of vocabulary, an outline of main dialects, and an extensive bibliographylisting English and other sources. Contributors include P. Cubberley, University of Melbourne, A. Schenker, Yale University, D. Short, University of London, G. Stone, University of Oxford, and A. Rothstein, University of Massachusetts.Comrie, Bernard is the author of 'Slavonic Languages' with ISBN 9780415047555 and ISBN 0415047552.[read more]
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Keeping up with relationships is hard work. When I caught the blog train a couple years ago, I was thrilled to have a new and different way of keeping up with my peeps, making new friends and learning new things. Over time my list of "must reads" has grown and many of those are authored by talented people who write eloquently or efficiently or profusely. I'm having a really hard time this summer keeping up with the eloquent, efficient & profuse. In fact, I haven't even opened my rss reader in at least 3 days. I'm kind of afraid to now, knowing how much is out there that I haven't read yet! I guess I've taken a stop at a depot and not boarded again.
I've also been doing a lot of book reading. (You know, those rectangular objects with paper pages?) That always cuts into my blog reading/writing time. I also just enjoyed a faboo week in Florida with my kids and my parents (minimal Internet time because I was enjoying their company) and then a really special weekend with my husband celebrating our 12th wedding anniversary. (You read his post right? Yes he's amazing and he's mine!)
So, I know it's all conceited and narcissistic and stuff to assume that I've been missed in my tiny little corner of the blogosphere but I'd just thought I'd pop in, say I'm still here and that I hope to get back on the blog train again…eventually. I know I've missed some really good stuff but I'm confident the really good, eloquent, efficient and profuse writing is not going away anytime soon.


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New item! Epidexipteryx hui in 1/72
If You sculpt the smallest known dinosaur (skeleton lenght) in 1/72, You get the smallest known dinosaur model in the world. From now my models will be bigger.
Epidexipteryx sits in a big brachiosaurid track pond and takes a bath. Beside a dramatic scene happens somewhere in the direction of the track. A Theropod of the size of a Yangchuanosaurus followed the sauropod (track upper right).
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After their first win in 2011, Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates won the Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona with its #1 TELMEX/Target BMW Riley prototype, powered by a Dinan Engineering tuned BMW engine.
Starting from the pole-position, co-drivers Scott Pruett, Charlie Kimball, Juan Pablo Montoya and Memo Rojas drove the car for 709 laps, while also leading it for 420. While the guys got Rolexes and some champagne at the end, BMW North America scored some great publicity for the brand's M division. Now that we keep going on about how BMW has lost its way, maybe it would be just about time for the gentlemen at Munich to decide on getting back to Le Mans. It's been a while...
M Power got its first overall win at Le Mans in 1995 bolted in the middle of a McLaren F1 GTR, but it was four years later when they triumphed with their own prototype, the V12 LMR. After the GTRs become underpowered, BMW decided to develop a Le Mans prototype with the help of 1996 and 1997 F1 Champions, the WilliamsF1 team. In 1998, the V12 LM was presented with the 5,990 cc version of the legendary S70 engine. And it was pretty much an instant failure. During its first tests, the LM turned out to be slower than the best of the GT1 class (including the McLaren F1 GTRs), then at Le Mans, vibrations detected in the drivetrain meant that both cars had to retire quite early. These disappointing results made BMW decide to sell the two cars to privaters (who were crazy enough to buy them), while the team went back to the drawing board at Williams. They resurrected with an Art Car that could win.
The BMW V12 LMR retained the basic carbon and aluminum honeycomb monocoque of its predecessor, but the bodywork was completely new in order the get rid of the cooling and aerodynamic problems of the previous season. The cooling ducts went to the top instead of the bottom, so that tarmac temperature could not effect the engine's performance, which was estimated around 580 horsepower.
Williams built four chasses at their UK headquarters, of which two were entered at the 12 Hours of Sebring by both BMW and Schnitzer Motorsport. While chassis #001 was crashed beyond repair, the second car took the overall win. For Le Mans, one of the three remaining cars was painted by American artist Jenny Holzer, who turned it into a very special member of the Art Car family. But that wasn't enough for it to win. After 365 laps with Pierluigi Martini, Yannick Dalmas and Joachim Winkelhock behind its wheel, the fastest LMR had only a few Dell stickers on its body.
Following the success, BMW took the LMR to North America, where it battled against Panoz prototypes, scoring quite a few wins once again. But since the Bavarians stepped into F1 the next year, the idea of a new contender for Le Mans was short lived. So came Audi, only to become the most successful team in modern Le Mans history starting in 2000. On the other hand, BMW's F1 adventure turned out to be a rather bitter one, so nobody was too surprised when they pulled the plug in 2009.
Since bloated SUV sales are going strong for BMW, maybe its time to do some catching up with Ingolstadt in other fields as well...
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Like the plumber with the eternally dripping faucet, cooks and chefs don't always fix bad eating habits.
For Andrea Potter, busy 12-hour shifts as a line cook at Feenie's led to erratic eating and, eventually, to trouble.
"I was a sugar addict. I'd wait until I got really tired and have a sugar binge," she says. "I was hypoglycemic from eating too much processed sugar at unpredictable times. I suffered a minor health collapse."
And for that, she's now grateful because five years later, her life and health are totally turned around. In the restaurant industry, she saw others like her old self. "I saw a lot of burnout, mood disorders, adrenal fatigue, blood sugar issues and sometimes weight problems," she says.
She now runs Rooted Nutrition (www.rootednutrition.wordpress.com) and is a holistic nutrition consultant and teaches holistic cooking classes. (She was the chef at Radha Yoga and Eatery until last year.)
Her cooking classes boycott processed white sugar. Her only use for it is for making kombucha, a fermented health beverage where fermentation turns sugar into organic acids and pro-biotic bacterias. "You don't get the negative effects and kombucha helps the immune system and digestion," Potter says.
Her recent travels through China were a reminder of how other cuisines balance flavours of sweet and sour and bitter and salty through a meal. "Our meals are super salty and heavily meaty and really sweet at the end. If the dishes were more balanced, we wouldn't crave sugar at the end," she says. "I try to add natural sweetness in every course through root vegetables, like beets, and grains. I like fruit, especially dried fruits for the concentrated sweetness. I'll serve apricot chutney with mushroom strudel or apple sauce with a pork chop."
At Radha restaurant, a vegan restaurant with a wine list, chef Robert Wilson-Smith — who trained at the Natural Gourmet Institute in N.Y. city — says it makes more sense to eat denser, fibrous foods at the end of a meal and desserts at the beginning. Desserts can digest and burn off first and fast, but if their digestion is slowed by meats and starches they will ferment, resulting in reflux, gas or belches. Besides, he says, a craving for sweetness at the end of a meal could be a symptom of withdrawal from too much highly refined white sugar, or of a dietary deficiency.
For sweeteners in desserts or savoury foods, both Potter and Wilson-Smith use healthier alternatives to the super-refined, nutrient-empty white sugar. They'll turn to alternatives such as coconut sugar, molasses, maple syrup, sucunat (short for sucre de canne naturel, or cane sugar without the molasses stripped away), fresh and dried fruits and agave nectar (from the agave plant). Potter uses honey, but Wilson-Smith doesn't, sticking to vegan principles. He does, however, use jaggery, an unrefined cane sugar with minerals and vitamins still present.
"We don't use anything white in the kitchen," Wilson-Smith says, "nothing bleached or highly refined."
Potter says agave's popularity dropped after initial excitement about its fructose (instead of sucrose) makeup.
"There's been press about it damaging the liver over long-term use so it's not viewed as the magic pill. Some companies started cutting it with corn syrup so people lost their trust," Potter says of agave. She does, however, use it along with other whole food sweeteners.
Stevia (powdered or leaf), another natural sweetener, has a bitter edge so she'll use it in combination with another sweetener. She's also a big fan of coconut sugar. "It's low-glycemic, has a rich flavour and it's not nutrient-depleted." Asian stores would likely carry it, while she gets hers at Organic Lives (on Quebec Street). As for the higher cost of processed sugar alternatives, she says: "You're buying real food, not nutrient-deprived white sugar, which robs, not adds. White sugar is cheap and plentiful and it doesn't have much flavour so you can put it in anything. It's instant gratification."
Sucunat, she says, can be used much like refined white sugar but has a molasses flavour. And when she uses molasses, she'll combine it with another sweetener. As for maple syrup, she says "the darker it is, the more minerals it has."
Wilson-Smith is a big fan of dates.
"It's a whole food with fibre and minerals and when it's puréed, it's thick and helps to emulsify and solidify."
Eliminating refined white sugar from recipes requires experimenting. "Mainly, be adventurous," says Potter. "It's uncharted territory. It's a different kind of baking than what our moms taught us. It's pretty much new ground."
She's mindful of the days before cane sugar was so readily available and when sweetness was derived from berries and roots. "So many generations have forgotten how to cook and bake with alternatives," she says.
A characteristic of processed white sugar is its hydrophilic property, or its ability to hold moisture. "If you're using substitutes, you might have to add moisture with fruit juices," she says, adding she's particularly fond of pear juice. "I'll use pear juice in barbecue sauce instead of sugar.""Be open-minded," says Wilson-Smith. "Don't be stuck on having the same results [as conventional European baking]. Expect the results to be crunchier, browner, and to have a more broad sweetness rather than a sharp sweetness. Get away from what it has to look like."
His vegan dessert pies, for instance, are made with nut crusts, held together by the sweetness and a "mortar" of dates instead of pastry.
Potter hasn't had much luck with alternative recipes online, she says. "A lot don't work and I get really upset because it's expensive." Instead, she recommends a dependable cookbook like Wholefood by Jude Blereau.
Or, should you be interested in making lemon bars or berry sorbet or hemp crème anglais with ice cream or raw chocolate mousse or almond bliss balls the Andrea Potter way, you could join her next alternative dessert class at Radha Yoga and Eatery (728 Main St.) on March 27.
Andrea Potter's Roasted Squash Muffins
You can add pumpkin or sunflower seeds, chopped nuts, raisins or dried cranberries to this recipe.
1 cup (250 mL) kamut flour
½ cup (125 mL) dried unsweetened coconut
11/2 teaspoon (7 mL) baking soda
½ teaspoon (2 mL) aluminum-free baking powder
½ teaspoon (2 mL) freshly grated nutmeg
1 teaspoon (5 mL) ground cinnamon
¼ teaspoon (¼ mL) ground cloves
1 teaspoon (5 mL) fresh ginger, grated on zester or fine setting of grater
2 tablespoons (30 mL) olive or other quality oil
1 cup (250 mL) pumpkin or squash purée (see instructions)
½ cup (125 mL) whole milk or alternative, like almond milk
2 tablespoons (30 mL) unsulphured blackstrap molasses
1 egg (free range organic)
¼ cup (60 mL) whole sugar (Sucanat or Rapidura or coconut sugar works for lower glycemic index)
Preheat oven to 350 F. In one mixing bowl, add kamut flour, coconut, baking soda, baking powder, nutmeg, cinnamon, ground cloves and ginger, and whisk to combine.
In a separate bowl, combine and whisk oil, pumpkin purée, milk, molasses, egg and sugar. Fold in any extras you want to add.
Spoon batter into 8 greased muffin tins (or line with cupcake papers). Bake for 35 to 40 minutes until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Cool slightly and remove muffins from tin as soon as they are cool enough to do so to keep them from getting soggy bottoms.
Makes 8 muffins.
Making pumpkin or squash purée:
Cut squash in half lengthwise. Scoop out seeds (wash and roast for later snack). Line baking sheet with parchment paper and place squash cut side down on it. Roast in 350 F oven. Time varies depending on size and density of squash. Check after 45 minutes with fork.
Once cooked, let cool and scoop out flesh. Let cool. Purée in food processor.
Andrea Potter's Raw Chocolate Ganache Tart
2 cups nuts/dried unsweetened coconut/seeds
¾ cup dates or other dried fruit (raisins, prunes, figs, or combination)
1 cup raw cashews, soaked for at least 1 hour, covered in water
¾ cup raw cacao, finely ground (or ½ cup raw cacao powder, available at Organic Lives)
1 cup soaked dates
½ cup agave
2 tablespoons vanilla
¾ cup coconut oil or cacao butter, melted over bain marie
Crust: Soak nuts or seeds for at least 30 minutes. Drain, rinse and place in food processor with fruit.
Pulse until the mixture is crumbly textured (but not pasty) and holds together when pinched. Press crust into the bottom of spring form pan evenly. You can build up the sides.
Filling: Drain and rinse the cashews. In blender or food processor, combine all ingredients except for coconut oil. Blend until smooth. Slowly add coconut oil as it blends. Once mixture is smooth, pour onto crust. Refrigerate or freeze until set, about 2 hours.
Serve cold. Run a paring knife around the outside of the cake to release it from the spring form pan. The tart freezes well. To serve, thaw in fridge for a few hours. Serve with raw berry coulis.
Makes 8 servings.
Radha's Raw Apple Pie
1 ½ cups (375 mL) dates immersed and soaked in water for 3 hours
Juice from ½ lemon
¼ teaspoon (1 mL) ginger powder
¼ teaspoon (1 mL) cardamom powder
1 ½ teaspoon (7 mL) cinnamon powder
1/8 (. 5 mL) teaspoon nutmeg powder
2 teaspoons (10 mL) vanilla powder
Pinch of salt and pepper
5 Granny Smith apples, approximately
Zest of ½ lemon
1 ½ cups (375 mL) almonds, soaked overnight
1 tablespoon (15 mL) coconut oil
1 tablespoon (15 mL) date spice purée (from the filling, above)
Filling: Add all filling ingredients, except for the apples and lemon zest, in blender and blend until smooth. Set aside in a large mixing bowl. Save 1 tablespoon (15 mL) of mixture for the crust.
In a food processor, pulse the almonds for the crust until coarse ground flour. Set aside in a small mixing bowl. Add the rest of the crust ingredients and mix thoroughly by hand. Press firmly into a pie pan and let sit at room temperature (to dry a bit) for a few hours.
Peel and thinly slice the apples on a mandolin. Add lemon zest to date purée and toss apples in the mixture, coat well.
Arrange apples evenly on crust, layer by layer until apples run out. Refrigerate to set.
Serve with Vanilla Coconut Cashew Creme
Vanilla Coconut Cashew Crème
1 cup (250 mL) cashews soaked in water, 4 hours or more
1/4 cup (60 mL) dates, soaked in water for 3 hours or more
1/3 cup (68 mL) shredded coconut
1 tablespoon (15 mL) coconut oil
2 teaspoons (5 mL) vanilla powder (or 2 teaspoons vanilla extract)
¼ (1 mL) teaspoon salt
½ cup (125 mL) water
Add all ingredients to blender and blend until smooth. Refrigerate to set.
Serve with Raw Apple Pie.
Makes 6 to 8 servings.
Radha's Rice Kheer
"This is a yummy vegan version of an all-time favourite, specially if you can make it with jaggery, which has a lower glycemic index than refined sugars. It can be purchased at the Punjabi Market (Main Street) or El Sureno (Commercial Drive). In Central American stores, it is called piloncillo." — Robert Wilson-Smith
1 cup (250 mL) rice (short grain brown, basmati or arborio)
2 1/2 cups (625 mL) water
1 cinnamon stick
1 1/2 cups (375 mL) almond milk (see recipe below)
1/2 cup (125 mL) jaggery (in pinch, can use brown sugar)
1/4 teaspoon (1 mL) ground cardamom
Pinch nutmeg
Cashews and raisins for garnish
Combine rice and water in a heavy-bottomed saucepan, cover and cook on a low heat until rice is well done.
Add the cinnamon stick, almond milk and crumble-in the jaggery until it breaks down and mixes in. Allow to simmer for 10 to 15 minutes. Adjust thickness with more almond milk if necessary.
Turn off heat and sprinkle with cardamom powder and nutmeg.
Pour into individual ramikens, and garnish with raisins and cashews.
Almond Milk
1 cup (250 mL) raw almonds
3 cups (750 mL) water
1 teaspoon agave syrup
1 tablespoon coconut oil
Soak the almonds for six hours or overnight.
Rinse THOROUGHLY.
Combine the soaked and rinsed almonds and water in a blender at high-speed; process until smooth.
Add agave and coconut oil at the end.
Strain through a fine-meshed strainer or several layers of moistened cheesecloth.
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When groups of people gather to chatter about video games, a lot of untrue statements get thrown back and forth. It's nothing new: in the days of the 16-bit console wars, there was always that person who would swear by everything holy that Nintendo and Sega were working on a console together (his uncle, who worked at Nintendo, told him so). One of the most popular modern misconceptions is, "PC gaming is dead." That statement isn't simply...read more


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Globe: "The Sox had their annual rookie hazing on their way to their final road trip of the regular season. They went with a "Wizard of Oz" theme, with Junichi Tazawa in a Dorothy costume complete with pig-tailed wig. Adding to the cast of characters was Josh Reddick as Glinda the Good Witch, Dusty Brown as the Scarecrow, and Daniel Bard as the Cowardly Lion."
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Holiday Heft Help from Carlon Colker, MD
Holiday food season is upon us, and the nightmare of the heft it leaves behind looms. But there are some key things that you can do to minimize the caloric damage and avoid a post-holiday horror. The first step involves scheduling those big meals and festivities a little earlier in the day.


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Beyonce's pregnancy was always an enigma that stood stealthily on it's own two feet as a pop culture phenomenon. When Queen Bee announced the "love growing inside of her" at last year's MTV VMAs during her "Love On Top" performance, we all sat, jaws dropped in disbelief that our favorite pop star was creating life.
Must Read: Beyonce: "[Jay-Z] Likes Me More Natural"
The disbelief took on a life all its own when Beyonce was spotted out in her tightest dresses and highest heels and even more so when she appeared on Autralian TV in an interview where she went to sit down and the fabric of her dress folded over, and seemingly crushed her unborn Blue Ivy. Another clouded reality was Beyonce's pregnancy timeline. It seemed to flash before our eyes and th whispered rumors got louder.
"That was crazy. It wasn't hurtful, it was just crazy," Beyonce tells PEOPLE. "[I thought] 'Where did they come up with this?'"
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Even Bey's mom, Tina Knowles, was brokenhearted by the surrogacy rumors. "I thought it was very unfair and very cruel that someone would think that someone would be that diabolical to keep up a charade like that for nine months," Tina says. "As a mother it was painful for me to hear the crazy rumors. And I even had people ask me, which was so ridiculous."
Tina went on to say that because of all of the love and support from loyal Beyonce fans, they've been able to deal with the "stupid rumors."
Must Read: People Magazine Names Beyonce 'World's Most Beautiful Woman 2012′
I don't know much about being a mother personally, but I do understand just how hurtful it can be to experience the joy of becoming one, but have the world take that away from you because they assume you want to be deceptive and pay someone to have your child for you, but pretend all the while that you're with child. It's a bit too sick to even think that Beyonce or anyone around her would go for that.
What do you think of the Beyonce surrogate rumors? Let's discuss on Twitter @Rhapsodani.
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News Limited will cut an expected 60 editorial production jobs after outsourcing the production of nine regional newspapers.
The company is outsourcing the sub-editing of The Mercury in Hobart, Sunday Tasmanian, Geelong Advertiser, The Cairns Post, Townsville Bulletin, Gold Coast Bulletin, NT News, Sunday Territorian and Centralian Advocate to Pagemasters, a subsidiary of Australian Associated Press.
News Limited did not disclose how many positions would be made redundant, however the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) said 60 editorial positions would be affected.
A News Limited spokesman said the company was "reorganising the way we do business", with changes including a $60 million investment in a new publishing system, Eidos Methode.
"As part of this investment, we are also re-organising the way we do business by outsourcing some activities to Pagemasters," he said on Thursday.
"Unfortunately some roles will become redundant.
"This is part of the structured roll-out of our transformation program which we began in July this year."
It is understood the job cuts will be made through a combination of attrition, redeployment and redundancies.
MEAA federal secretary Christopher Warren said the job cuts decision "flies in the face" of previous undertakings by News Limited and took to 500 the total number of editorial positions lost at the company in 2012.
Pagemasters managing director Peter Atkinson said the new agreement will result in Pagemasters hiring up to 40 new staff in Queensland, Victoria and Hobart.
In September, News Limited announced the outsourcing of sub-editing for more than 100 of its community newspapers to Pagemasters.
That move resulted in the loss of about 65 jobs at News Limited, while Pagemasters added 40 new staff to do the work.
Mr Atkinson said handover of work to Pagemasters would begin in the new year, with "the bulk of the work to be integrated by the end of February".
The MEAA said it expected 60 sub-editors to be made redundant by February 15, 2013.


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Editor's Note: "Jaime's China" is a weekly column about Chinese society and politics. Jaime FlorCruz has lived and worked in China since 1971. He studied Chinese history at Peking University (1977-81) and served as TIME Magazine's Beijing correspondent and bureau chief (1982-2000).
Beijing, China (CNN) -- Celebrating the traditional Lantern Festival this week, many Beijing residents spent a lot of money dining out and setting off fireworks to mark the end of the Chinese Lunar New Year. "For the rich the money they spend is mere peanuts," says Mei Yana, a migrant from rural Henan province working as a restaurant waitress.
Aren't Chinese getting battered with high inflation? "That's the ordinary people's worry," she said.
The annual "Blue Book of China's Society" compiled by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences noted that last year rising prices topped the list of the public's concerns.
The consumer price index, a gauge of inflation, hit 5.1% last November, despite government pledges to rein it in at just 3 percent. Now hovering around 5%, CPI may seem manageable, but its food component is around 10%, with certain items soaring even faster.
"Prices of meat, fish and vegetables have gone way up," complained Wang Rongfang, a 68-year-old pensioner shopping at the Xinyuanli market in Beijing.
Sometimes inflation pinches in disguised ways. In local retail stores visited by a Chongqing Evening News reporter, prices of some instant noodle brands were unchanged, while the weight of their packages fell from 95g to 85g.
Some residents make ends meet by scrimping, others with black humor.
Jokes circulating on Chinese-language websites offer suggestions on how to save money in inflationary times. "Tell disgusting jokes to stop your wife from eating," says one. Another, in citing the soaring prices of meat, goes: "My son has graduated with a PhD. He is considering whether to work for a software company or the pork business."
But inflation is no joking matter for China's Communist Party rulers, as soaring costs could trigger social instability. "The Communist Party came into power in 1949 in part due to hyperinflation after World War II that broke the back of the Chinese economy and the Nationalist regime," says Patrick Chovanec, associate professor at Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management in Beijing. "They know they nearly lost power in 1989 in part due to anger over rising inflation that fueled the Tiananmen protests."
The Chinese government has taken measures to curb inflation, from offering more subsidies for farmers to produce more essential goods to imposing price controls on scarce goods and government services. In recent months, China has tapped on the brakes to cool the overheated economy, albeit with limited success.
Some analysts say prompt government measures are mitigating risks to avert a repeat of the Tiananmen Square unrest in 1989, when Beijing witnessed massive street protests that ended in a bloody crackdown on June 4. "The current 5% inflation rate is far below the 20% in May 1989," said Wenfang Tang, a political science professor at the University of Iowa in the United States. "Prices have been rising continuously in the past several years, so it is not a shock to most people in China."
Still, some economists say the CPI is only one measure of inflation and does not capture the full inflationary pressure in China's economy today. China's money supply, they say, has expanded by more than 50% over the past two years -- the stimulus fueling China's red-hot growth rates.
With such monetary expansion, the question isn't why China is battered by inflation, but why China hasn't seen more inflation sooner.
One explanation: All the new money printed went mainly into an investment boom, not a consumption boom. State banks lent out new money, which went to bid up the price of land, the price of commodities -- into so-called "asset inflation."
Asset inflation, experts say, does not feel like inflation. "When the price of bread doubles, it feels like it's getting harder to make ends meet," says Chovanec of Tsinghua. "When the price of high-end condos doubles, it feels like smart investors are getting rich -- it feels like a boom."
Eventually, the asset inflation spills into the general price level. "In my view, that's the real worry in China -- that what we're seeing in terms of CPI rates could just be the tip of the inflation iceberg," Chovanec added.
By incrementally raising interest rates and reserve requirement ratio for banks, China has slowed down its inflation rate but only modestly. Ultimately, experts say, what China needs to do is tighten its money supply, which is still growing at nearly 20% yearly.


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Pure DWTS Media-"Don't say anything and don't think, and don't move until you feel it"
A few new media things to share in a second, but, we have a question first: what are some of your most favorite or most memorable dancing scenes from a movie? Stay tuned. I'll tell you my pick at the end of this post. 😉
So, first up….here is a fun video with Tony and Joy Behar discussing their experience doing "Miss America" last week (is it just me or has Tony lost some weight in the off season? he's look really great). I thought it was a good show and the judges did a super job this time.
If you haven't heard yet, TV Guide is reporting Derek is joining Larry King in a new March episode of ABC's "Better With You". He's been cast to play a dancing instructor named Phillip. Won't that be fun?
Joining Larry King in a March episode of ABC's Better With You will be another acting novice trying his hand at comedy. Popular Dancing With the Stars pro Derek Hough has been cast to play a dancing instructor named Phillip.
After realizing bride-to-be Mia (JoAnna Garcia) has two left feet in Phillip's dance class rehearsals for their first wedding dance, Mia's fiancé Casey (Josh Cooke) purposely tanks to make her look better for the group.
For those (like myself) who were hoping Edyta might be back this season to dance, I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon. Here's what she tweeted to someone at twitter.
@TheMovieGirl1 Really? True I don't want to do the show anymore but DWTS will akways be part of my life. And I'm always gonna be from there
— Edyta Sliwinska (@Edyta_Sliwinska) January 17, 2011
Ok, that's it for now. So here is one of my most favorite dance scenes from a movie and I can't wait to hear on yours. From "Shall We Dance";
Does this make you miss our show even more? Oops. sorry. lol 😉 xx


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Several years of light attendance prompted the cancellation of tonight's annual New Year's Eve fireworks display along the Downtown riverfront.
The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board and Minneapolis Riverfront Arts and Events Committee announced in November they would cancel the Dec. 31 display. Instead, they will focus their efforts on the July 4th fireworks display, which also takes place over the Mississippi River near Downtown.


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March 3, 2008 -- New information about a possible genetic cause of celiac disease could soon lead to better treatments for the immune disorder.
Researchers have identified a group of seven gene regions that appear to predispose people to celiac disease.
People with celiac disease cannot tolerate gluten protein found in wheat, rye, and barley products, such as breads and cereals. They must follow a strict gluten-free diet to control their symptoms, which can include abdominal pain, fatigue, and weight loss.
When people with celiac disease eat foods containing gluten, their immune systems attack the protein. This damages the intestinal lining, hampering the ability to absorb vital nutrients from food, eventually leading to malnutrition.
Celiac disease affects up to 1% of the population and is difficult to treat and diagnose. Researchers say a better understanding of what causes the immune system disorder could lead to improved treatments for the condition.
Celiac Disease Genes
Previous studies identified a genetic region on chromosome four associated with celiac disease. In this study, the same research group identified seven new genetic regions associated with an increased risk of celiac disease.
Researchers compared genetic markers in people with and without celiac disease and then assessed about 1,000 of the strongest markers in a further 5,000 samples.
The results, published in Nature Genetics, identified seven new genetic risk regions associated with celiac disease. Of those seven mutations, six involve genes that control immune responses.
"So far, our findings explain nearly half of the heritability of celiac disease -- now studies with many more samples from individuals with celiac disease are needed to identify the precise causal genetic variants from each region, and understand how these influence biological processes," researcher David van Heel, professor of gastrointestinal genetics at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, says in a news release.


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Beautiful Websites: Pictory's Ode to Spring
There's currently a debate raging in the publishing world over whether the web is robust enough of a platform to present magazine-like stories properly — paginated content heavy on photography, design and stylized type. The current popular opinion is that the web is not up to snuff, and thus the scramble towards dedicated readers and apps specially built for new devices like the iPad. Also, the reason for the print industry's long-standing relationship with Flash, which handles such things in a manner that's good enough for most.
But the web continues to mature as a presentation platform. Here's another example of that growth: Pictory, the most recent endeavor from designer and editor Laura Brunow Miner. The site showcases captioned photography in a very magazine-like manner.
Check out the latest "issue," a showcase on the arrival of Spring. It's gorgeous, and it's all done in semantic HTML, JavaScript and CSS. The fonts are provided by Typekit. The page-to-page navigation is controlled by the left and right arrow keys, but your scroll wheel works, too. There are even hidden gems, like the scripted event that makes the flowers on the title page bloom when the mouse moves over them.
When you're done browsing Pictory, read Laura's essay on her personal blog about how the web's flexibility shaped her view of what's possible in a digital magazine.


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What is Visiting Teaching?One of the ways that we reach out and fellowship other women in the (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) congregation is through visiting teaching. Every woman has designated visiting teachers (usually two, in a companionship) who visit or call regularly, ideally at least once a month. This inspired program links each woman to other women in her congregation. It can create friendships, provide opportunities to serve, and help everyone involved learn about and grow closer to our Savior, Jesus Christ.
What is Personal Progress?Personal Progress is an achievement program designed to help young women ages 12-18 strengthen their testimonies of Jesus Christ, strengthen both their present and future families, prepare to be worthy to make and keep sacred temple covenants, and to prepare for their future roles and responsibilities. There are eight values for which experiences and projects are completed: Faith, Divine Nature, Individual Worth, Knowledge, Choice and Accountability, Good Works, Integrity and Virtue.


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Camille Holvoet's (b. 1952, San Francisco, CA) work is deceptively sweet as her practice tends to draw on remembrances of life's anxieties and forbidden desires. Holvoet's process is an endless discovery, in which – through repeatedly drawing in oil pastel her sacred objects: dessert, Ferris Wheels, and crossed eyes – the pressures of the past are relieved by the joy of the creative process. When Holvoet combines text with imagery, the resonance between the two is powerful as beautiful, vibrant renderings of cakes and pies are overwritten with recollections of nightmares, fears, frustrated sexual feelings, and religious doubt.
A San Francisco native, Holvoet joined the Creativity Explored studio in 2001. Her artwork has been exhibited both nationally and internationally (See below).
Read more about Holvoet in Priscilla Franks' Huff Post piece, "A 63-Year-Old Artist Explains How Art Can Cure Creative Hunger at Any Age," and in Alissa Greenberg's "The Art of the Bittersweet" in BrutForce.
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Bees and Math
"Bees…by virtue of a certain geometrical forethought…know that the hexagon is greater than the square and the triangle, and will hold more honey for the same expenditure of material. — Pappus of Alexandria
Bees have not studied tessellations theory. However, some of their behavior patterns can be explained mathematically. One such phenomena which mother nature instilled in the bee is the nature to use the least expenditure of energy and materials. The bees somehow know that the square, the triangle and the hexagon are the only three self-tessellating regular polygons. Of the three, the hexagon has the smallest perimeter for a given area. So, when bees are constructing hexagonal prism cells in the hive, they use less wax and do less work to enclose the same space than if tessellating space with prisms of square or triangular bases. The honeycomb walls are made up of cells which are 1/80 of an inch thick, yet can support 30 times their own weight. A honeycomb of 14.5"x8.8" can hold more than five pounds of honey. That also explains why they are so heavy. The bees are creating hexagonal prisms in three rhombic sections, and the walls of the cell meet at exactly 120 degree angles. What is even more amazing, is the fact that the bees work simultaneously on different sections forming a comb with no visible seams. It is built vertically downward, and the bees use parts of their bodies as measuring instruments. In fact, their heads act as plummets."
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|レンガ Renga
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Renga (レンガ, Renga) is the oldest brother of Jiga and Ruiga and the leader of the Janin.
He is the mastermind of the coup d'etat in the Land of Vegetables which resulted in the death of its daimyō. After their rise to power, the three brothers betrayed their allies, which included greedy and disloyal courtiers they had recruited, and slaughtered them all. The brothers themselves were distrusting of each other, and plotted to kill off the others in order to have more wealth and power for themselves.
Renga has long brown hair and beige-coloured eyes. He has three purple fang-shaped markings on his face one on each cheek with the point of the fang-like mark facing up towards his eyes. He has the last fang-like marking on his forehead facing down towards his nose. He wears a purple vest-like shirt with red for the collar and the sides. He wears a blue T-shirt under this along with blue wrist coverings on his lower arms.
Like his brothers, Renga has a very unique and special technique presumably only he can use. In a manner similar to the Yuki clan's Ice Release, Renga has the ability to create ice. By focusing his chakra to condense moisture particles in the air, he can form thin and transparent disks of ice. These disks have several uses. They can be hurled with tremendous blunt force at a target, which will be hard to dodge because of their transparency. They can also be strung together to spy on areas both far and hidden from a distance. They also have a defensive purpose of creating highly durable shields or disks to stand on to "float". By forming the ice into a large lens, he can hover in the sky to focus the rays of the sun, which can focus into a powerful beam capable of melting and exploding the pinpointed area.
Renga, while preferring long-range fighting, was also seen using a sword, signifying that he is at least proficient in Kenjutsu at a basic level, if only to kill a distracted and defenceless retainer.
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Out of all the brothers, he had the most twisted worldview, and believed most strongly in using people for his own ends. Following the death of Ruiga and Jiga, Renga attacked Naruto Uzumaki and Haruna.
He wondered why Naruto would risk so much to protect Haruna, and why Haruna would stand between him and Naruto. After using his special technique so many times, Naruto managed to come up with a way to counter it and reflect it off his forehead protector, and wounded him so badly that he was unable to continue fighting. Haruna was about to kill him to avenge her father, but was unable to go through with it. What happened to Renga after that remains unknown.


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China Slump Ripples Globally
Slowed Growth Realigns Industries and Economies as Beijing Switches Strategies
As the numbers pile up showing China's sizzling growth cooling down, industries world-wide—from German paper-cutter makers to Indonesian palm-oil exporters—are confronting an altered landscape of winners and losers.
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The entire family went to see Nanny McPhee on Saturday and we loved it! This is a new fairy tale that I will enjoy seeing again on DVD. I recommend it to everyone. My kids enjoyed it and I really liked it, too. I laughed and cried (which Kenny mentions to anyone when discussing the movie.)
Kenny's favorite part: The tea party when the 7 children attempt to drive away the new stepmother. It was full of gross stuff.
Abbie's favorite part: At the wedding (it IS a fairy tale, after all) when the bride gets her dress and veil. It is very beautiful and I saw no tattoos.
Denise's favorite part: Nanny McPhee gives the children what they ask for - no matter the consequences. Oh, that we all could.
Jim's favorite part: He said "the end" but I'm sure there was something in there he enjoyed?
Sunday, January 29, 2006
Movie Review
The entire family went to see Nanny McPhee on Saturday and we loved it! This is a new fairy tale that I will enjoy seeing again on DVD. I recommend it to everyone. My kids enjoyed it and I really liked it, too. I laughed and cried (which Kenny mentions to anyone when discussing the movie.)
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Friday, January 27, 2006
Name Change?
Kenny is fascinated with Chinese culture. I don't know why - maybe God's preparing us for something in his future? For those of you don't know, Sunday is Chinese New Year and Kenny's class just completed a unit on Chinese culture. They had eggrolls and fortune cookies for snack today and watched Mulan. (I'm sure there was some math in there)
Funny thing is they talked about the Chinese zodiac and Kenny brought home a zodiac paper. Not the usual one at every Chinese restaurant but a little different. I am a Tiger, of course. Today's paper said that "other people respect Tiger people for their deep thoughts and courageous actions." Perhaps I should change the blog name?
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Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Your Favorites...
Mike Cope 's blog today is about listing your favorite 3 worship songs. I'm a music addict and can recall lyrics from the 70's with ease. I've been reminded of some of my favorites while reading the comments section. I've also been amazed at some of the choices but I guess that's why some people complain about the song selections for Sundays. I ONLY complain when we sing Blue Skies and Rainbows.
Now it's your turn - What 3 worship songs would you choose for Sunday morning? Feel free to list again if you already posted on Mike's blog.
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Friday, January 20, 2006
I Saw...
I saw a sign today that said they "Change your windshield wiper for free." It's hasn't rained here in at least a month.
I saw the Biblical size of Welch's grape juice (purple) in a refrigerator next to a bottle of Pinot Grigio. Does the Fruit of the Vine have to be red (purple)? I'm just asking.
I love irony.
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Sunday, January 15, 2006
Here's a Sweet One
Yesterday's wedding:
Father of the Bride almost caused a meltdown in the bride's room before the wedding! Mother of the Bride was VERY upset! She questioned the FOB until he confessed what he had said to the bride. He told her "I'm sure I won't see anything that beautiful this side of the pearly gates."
It was beautiful and I only saw one tattoo.
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Saturday, January 14, 2006
The Tattoo Wedding
This one was a few months back...
It seemed that everyone in the wedding had a tattoo. One of the bridesmaids had a large butterfly on her upper back that was visible (of course) in her bridesmaid dress. The bride's tattoo was on her ankle and I wasn't close enough to see her design. This is a problem with old age - you can't see the tattoos.
Then there was the music. The groom and minister walked in to "The Hammer of Krum." I had no idea what this was either. It turns out that this music is from "Conan, The Barbarian." It did sound like some barbarian music lots of banging timpani. The recessional is usually when the bridal couple REALLY express themselves so it's usually quirky or funny. I didn't know this song, something by the Pretenders, but on the my 2nd hearing I perked up. Did he just sing "hell?" I think he did sing "hell." He sang "hell." So do I make these people pull the song at the rehearsal? Do we have a curse word in our building, over the sound system? How bad does the cuss word have to be before we pull the song? One f-word, two?
I let it pass. I heard no more cursing on the song. I have since mentioned to the brides that the music should be without swearing.
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Thursday, January 12, 2006
Old Candy - New Fun
"These are exploding in my mouth!" "They are noisy in my mouth!" "Let's make these at home - here's a list of ingredients." "I'm getting Pop Rocks whenever I can find them!" Abbie just giggles.... Today my children discovered Pop Rocks.
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Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Yeah, we played the Jack card and asked for prayer for him. For all you out-of-towners, Jack's MRI was great! His tumors continue to shrink.
I know lots of you have friends that need prayers and want to play the card for them. Lets! Be sure to ask for prayers for your family and friends whenever you need to. God isn't like "Bruce Almighty" that had to sit at his computer all day to get his prayer requests on email. Our God is so big and He has lots of memory!
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Monday, January 09, 2006
Prayers for Jack
On a more serous note: pray for Jack today. He will receive a MRI this afternoon to determine his tumors size. This will impact his continued treatment. This family is dear friends with ours and we are all praying, too.
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Pew Notes
I hate it when someone else sits in MY pew! This can set me back 2 or 3 songs, easy. Yesterday I had to sit in the middle. This isn't a problem for me except I have to leave to take Abbie to Kid's Church and usually Kenny needs water or needs to go out to blow his nose. I know this is the wrong attitude to take. So is this a rant or a confession? I'm not sure. We attend a large church with new people coming in all the time and they need somewhere to sit, too. When we first started we took one of the elders seats - they were gracious and never complained. It was my goal (unspoken until now) to get there before them every Sunday. But I LOVE to sit in the front so we moved up. Whose pew did we take? I have my thoughts and I try to beat them every Sunday now. God love 'em.
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Wednesday, January 04, 2006
Notes from the Drive-In, Part II
The movie was Cheaper By the Dozen 2 and I must say it appeals to all members of the family:
Kenny's favorite part: 7th grader says he can follow a scat trail, 2nd graders (twins) say what's a scat trail? 7th grader says animal poop 2nd graders say OOOO and Cool!
Abbie's favorite part: 8th grade tomboy gets ready for her first date. She puts on make up and a skirt. This is told by Abbie with a head tilt and upward glance, very cutesy.
Denise's favorite part: Steve Martin, as the dad, tries to knee board. This is some type of water skiing. Gets dragged and slowly walks upstairs where he collapses on the bed. In a wet suit, totally spread eagled, completely wiped out! Bonnie Hunt, as the mom, walks in from the bathroom, "Oh, ok, I'll just put on some perfume."
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Notes From the Drive-In
On Monday we went to the Town and Country Drive-In and these are some of the lessons learned:
1. Don't take fast food to the drive-in. It is hard to eat in the dark. Especially if you are 3.
2. Locate the bathrooms first. They are the same bathrooms from 1959.
3. Kids spill - take a roll of paper towels.
4. The smell of all food is over powering in an enclosed van. What smells good to one child will not to another.
5. There's no rewind - it's like a real movie.
6. The windows fog up when kids lean on the dashboard. Wiping them only makes a bigger mess.
7. You can throw up right outside the van - you don't HAVE to find the bathroom.
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Sunday, January 01, 2006
Welcome 2006!
On another note - my jobs. Some of you know I have numerous part-time jobs. My full-time job is Wife and Mother. (Do men say Husband and Father first?) I also teach 2 year olds at a Day School at Highland CoC. That is Tuesday and Thursday and I would be unable to add any other days, thank you. These are all babies that have just turned 2 and need diaper changes, encouragement to eat whatever mom sent, and to be patted to sleep. (Abbie gets to go for free.) I also am the only rep for Kelly's Kids in Abilene. The extra money is nice and Abbie's clothes are bought at a discount. One more.... I work for our church, Southern Hills, as a Wedding Coordinator or Facilities Manager for Weddings or Office liaison for Weddings. I can't settle on a job title. I make sure the building is set up the way they want it for their wedding and that it is set up correctly for the next worship service. I am present at all weddings and always help out with lots of stuff. I'm also supposed to represent Southern Hills in a good light especially to non-members. Lots of funny stuff happens at weddings - stay tuned.
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